Ezekiel 47:13-23
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Divisions of the Land
13 This is what the Lord God says.
These are the boundaries you are to use to divide the land as an inheritance for the twelve tribes of Israel.
(Joseph is to have two portions.)
14 You will assign equal portions of the land that I swore with uplifted hand to give to your fathers. This is how the land will be allotted to you as an inheritance.
15 These are to be the boundaries of the land:
On the north side, the boundary goes from the Great Sea by way of Hethlon to Lebo Hamath to Zedad,[a] 16 Beruthah, and Sibraim, which is on the border between the territories of Damascus and Hamath, as far as Hazer Hattikon, which is on the border of Hauran. 17 So the border will be from the sea to Hazar Enon, on the border of Damascus to the north, which also is the border of Hamath. This is the north side.
18 On the east side, the border will run from Hazar Enon between Hauran and Damascus. Between Gilead and the land of Israel, the Jordan is the border as far as the Eastern Sea.[b] The border then will run to Tamar.[c] This is the east side.
19 On the south side, in the Negev, the border will run from Tamar to the waters of Meribah Kadesh, then along the Stream of Egypt to the Great Sea. This is the southern boundary in the Negev.
20 On the west side, the Great Sea is the border until a point opposite Lebo Hamath. This is the west side.
21 In this way you are to divide this land for yourselves, for the tribes of Israel. 22 You are to allot it as an inheritance for yourselves and for the aliens who have settled among you and who have fathered children among you. They are to be treated like someone who is native-born among the sons of Israel. With you they are to receive allotments as an inheritance among the tribes of Israel. 23 In whatever tribe an alien has settled, there you are to give him his inheritance, declares the Lord God.
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- Ezekiel 47:15 The word order follows the Greek text.
- Ezekiel 47:18 The Dead Sea
- Ezekiel 47:18 The Greek text reads to the eastern sea and as far as Tamar (implying a Hebrew reading Tamar). The Hebrew text reads to the eastern sea you shall measure (Hebrew tamad). In Hebrew script r and d are sometimes indistinguishable.
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